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Our new single ‘Pieces of Me’ is now available to stream on all digital platforms via Cuculi Records 🌘 

‘Pieces of Me’ is the third single from Hands of the Heron's upcoming album ‘Quiet Light’ (out 22 Nov). Drawing on prog & psych influences, Claire Vine's beguiling voice is the central thread in a moody dreamscape of electric guitar, strings and haunting vocal harmonies. 

The single (and album) artwork was created by Bristol-based artist Ruby Geddes, who is also a songwriter & musician working with our DIY label Cuculi Records. There's a stunning video to accompany the track created by Luke Spurgeon (aka Woodfolk, another musician/producer from the Cuculi family) out now: https://youtu.be/uwJDwGOdj0k?si=UkPRhr_Hn4kO0D__

Claire explains that she “began writing this song in 2017, before I really considered myself a songwriter. I’d been in Athens for nearly a year volunteering with asylum seekers and refugees. I was surrounded by a lot of trauma and felt compelled to help in any way I could, so I completely overworked myself until I was totally burnt out. When I came home I was exhausted, depressed and had taken on what I now know as secondary trauma. I didn’t have any language to express how I was feeling or understand how to make myself feel better. I didn’t feel like I deserved support as I had chosen to put myself in that situation. The song emerged from that place in lots of fragments - I thought they were all different songs, but Beth and Bec  helped me weave them together into a whole song.” 

✨Written by Claire Vine
✨Arranged & recorded by Hands of the Heron (Claire Vine - vocals; Bec Garthwaite - vocals, electric guitar; Beth Roberts - vocals, strings)
✨Engineered & mixed by Robo Elliott at The Roost, Bristol 
✨Mastered by Thomas Calladine Music
✨Single artwork by Ruby Geddes 
✨Film by Luke Spurgeon

5. Pieces of Me - Hands of the Heron

The Wheel (Released)

Llygaid

Herald P. Cattie's Phantoms in the Dusk.

www.phantomsinthedusk.bandcamp.com

hide among the roses till the fire comes

into your arms

@ben-osborn‘s Memories of Circular Time is a new series of interconnected works for electronic sequencers, samples, field recordings, layering looping sequences of different lengths, patterns of change and return, exploring how time is perceived when it is considered as a series of interlocking circles rather than a progression.

Ben Osborn presents Memories of Circular Time listening session at migas 19.06.25

Arriving from Paris in 1994 with his turntables and vinyl, DJ BIJ / Benoit Pascal Vanderhaghen helped shape Lithuania’s early rave scene and today we’re chatting about it live from the hut!

RAVE NATION INTERVIEW WITH BENOIT VANDERHAGHEN

“As the summer fades away
I look back and I see
you smiling right at me
the way you used to do
Over the years
some things change
Some stay exactly the same
But finally I understand
What’s really important to me…”

YAKUZA SPECIAL WITH MAVROS SKYLOS 無限

⚠️ Eat and drive! ⚠️ Speeding off live from the hut with @yyoolia for hour one, @cosmo_operator takes the wheel for hour two ⚠️

DRIVETHRU FLAVOUR PATROL SPECIAL

A fusion of energy & ambience with a chorus you won't forget this is a monster of a song , out on the 9th of October for download from all the usual download sites 

Monster

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5. Pieces of Me - Hands of the Heron

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